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Here you can see debunked the Philadelphia Inquirer news story put out by Dr Paul Offit's Children's Hospital of Philadelphia ['CHOP'] implying your kids may die in the much hyped "just around the corner" "coming to your town soon" non-existent worldwide "swine 'flu" non-pandemic: [Children's Hospital study links deaths to post-flu issues] 16th June 2009 Mark Roth.
Below are edited email exchanges between "Philly" reporter Mark Roth [who wrote the CHOP "death is coming soon" story] and UK pro bono lawyer and trained scientist Clifford Miller.
See the record set straight and the facts CHOP left out to scare parents.
And do vaccines cause autistic conditions? If you read nothing else we strongly recommend you read this: PDF Download – Text of May 5th 2008 email from US HRSA to Sharyl Attkisson of CBS News]. In it the US Health Resources Services Administration [HRSA] state to CBS News reporter Sharyl Attkission
We have compensated cases in which children exhibited an encephalopathy, or general brain disease. Encephalopathy may be accompanied by a medical progression of an array of symptoms including autistic behavior, autism, or seizures."
Despite all the lies and deceit by health official worldwide, the question "do vaccines cause autism" was answered after the Hannah Poling story broke in the USA in February 2008 [see CHS article here]. Hannah developed an autistic condition after 9 vaccines administered the same day. Under the media spotlight numerous US health officials and agencies conceded on broadcast US nationwide TV news from CBS and CNN. Full details with links to the original sources can be found in this CHS article: Vaccination Causes Autism – Say US Government & Merck's Director of Vaccines. [Blue Text added 10 April 2011]
"Death is coming" as the latest marketing tool for 'flu vaccines beats George Lucas' 1970′s "Star Wars is Coming" style campaign to promote his excellent films.
But to use it to blackmail parents to put their children at risk from experimental vaccines is unacceptable. And the more so because there is no way pneumonia will kill vast numbers ever again [even if maybe one of the many 'flu vaccines incubates a new strain in some hapless recipient]. Pneumonia and other disease mortality rates have plummetted since 1918 and not because of medical intervention: Vaccines Did Not Save Us – 2 Centuries of Official Statistics.
And here is something else you were not told:-
Children Who Get Flu Vaccine Have Three Times Risk Of Hospitalization For Flu, Study Suggests – ScienceDaily (May 20, 2009).
A CHOP colleague of Dr Paul Offit [who made US$29 million from his rotavirus vaccine patent] Dr. Kathleen Sullivan, chief of allergy and immunology at Children's Hospital in Philadelphia, is quoted extensively about her new paper all about the new killer plagues. These seem to have replaced other threats of world extinction.
The "world asteroid threat" was promoted widely after the "communists nukes threat" pretty well ended with the cold war – ["killer asteroids" was not likely to last - a tough thing to merchandise - even in the US].
The CHOP story stated:-
….. most people have now heard of the 1918 flu pandemic, which killed nearly 50 million people around the world.
…… very few of those victims died of the flu itself.
Many historians now believe 95 percent of those deaths were caused by secondary bacterial pneumonia, which swept in after people's bodies had been weakened by the flu virus.
…. bacterial pneumonia is not as big a killer in today's flu epidemics …. it is still a major threat.
….. the World Health Organization has formally declared the new H1N1 swine flu as a global pandemic, with 29,000 cases and at least 144 deaths in 74 countries, ….. the medical community and the public need to remain alert to the dangers …. particularly from strep pneumoniae.
Dr. Kathleen Sullivan … published a study ….. showing that in many children who die from flu complications …
….. one-third of the children … die after flu infections …..
A common pattern ….. is that they seem to be recovering from the flu. Then …. they suddenly get much sicker and rapidly weaken — a sign of the bacterial onslaught."
Here you can see the facts CHOP left out of their story and see the record set straight in UK pro bono lawyer and trained scientist Clifford Miller's edited email exchanges with the "Philly's" correspondent Mark Roth who wrote the CHOP "death is coming soon" story.
From:Clifford G. Miller
Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 4:32 AM
To: Mark Roth
Subject: Children's Hospital study links deaths to post-flu issues
Importance: High
Dear Mark,
Children's Hospital study links deaths to post-flu issues
Dr Paul Offit's hospital is scaremongering. Official US data show there is no chance of a repeat of 1918 [more below]. Offit has made US$29 million from his rotavirus vaccine patent [which caused children more problems than it was supposed to prevent when first used].
There is no way pneumonia will kill vast numbers ever again. Pneumonia and other disease mortality rates have plummetted since 1918 and not because of medical intervention. You can see for yourself here from official US, UK and Australian statistics. Historical mortality statistics demonstrate the 1918 pandemic was a "one off" at a time when poverty was high, social conditions were poor and all mortality was several orders of magnitude higher than today:-
As a result of clean drinking water and improved nutrition people's immune systems are more robust and it is a medically accepted phenomenon that infectious disease attenuates – becomes milder – all by itself over time.
And the statistics of a supposed 29,000 swine 'flu cases across 75% of the world's population [around 3 billion people] and 137 supposed deaths – are ridiculously low compared to ordinary flu or just crossing the street.
More people have probably died from yawning at news like this.
The health agencies are not carrying out proper testing and they halved their previous "death" figures when they unleashed the hysteria over Mexico and we are still being given the same ones weeks later. Where are the masses of new deaths?
Is there any way to get to the bottom of who is responsible for whipping up this worldwide hysteria in the medical professions over this non-existent "pandemic" and to get the facts rather than the hype?
This is part of the drug companies' marketing plans to push vaccines including annual 'flu vaccines under their changed business models:-
New Report Forecasts More Than Doubling of Vaccine Sales by 2013 – MarketWatch Jun 11, 2009 – Kalorama News Release
Kids' vaccine market set to quadruple – Drug Researcher – By Anna Lewcock 20-Nov-2007
Some drug companies have repeatedly shown they falsify data. This includes falsified data published in peer reviewed journals to promote one drug or another. The New England Journal of Medicine is meant to be the world leading but has been caught numerous times over this kind of thing. And the problem appears to be getting worse if US Senator Grassley's commendable recent work is any indication.
Mainstream EU vaccine expert Dr Tom Jefferson has already shown 'flu vaccines to be ineffective and publicly said so. The vaccines have adverse effects which are just not being counted – especially because of the kind of mindless medical hysteria we are seeing now: [Winter flu jabs evidence queried BBC - Thursday, 26 October 2006].
How is it possible we have health officials giving this the time of day – at tax payers' expense?
From: Clifford G. Miller,
Beckenham, Kent BR3 3LA, England
——– Original Message ——–
|RE: Children's Hospital study links deaths to post-flu issues
|Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:42:05 -0400
|Mark Roth
|Clifford G. Miller
Clifford: I won't attempt to respond to all the points you make below. I'll simply note that a) Paul Offit had nothing to do with the study I cited; b) At no point did the study or the story imply that the new flu strain would cause as many deaths as the 1918 pandemic
——– Original Message ——–
|Children's Hospital study links deaths to post-flu issues
|Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:04:21 +0100
|Clifford G. Miller
|Mark Roth
Dear Mark,
Children's Hospital study links deaths to post-flu issues
Thanks for replying. I am not criticising you. You can only work with what you are given. I am making sure that:-
- next time you get something from The Children's Hospital of Philadephia you know you cannot trust it;
- you have the facts which CHOP left out of the story they gave you;
And they are scaremongering. The story they gave you started by referring to the 1918 flu pandemic as if it could happen again and wrote of children dying and made direct reference to the current non-existent swine flu pandemic [on the same page as] the 1918 one.
Some drug companies can and will do anything to sell their products and they have their hooks everywhere. ….. There are thousands of hospitals in the US. It just happens to be coincidental that one of Offit's colleagues at his hospital is involved in putting out a paper to scare people with misleading information about a current pandemic which will kill their children and the hospital itself is identified in the headline to your story.
And if anyone believes the BS people like Offit put out about vaccines not causing autism, I challenge anyone to claim the hard data from Japan is not proof. You can find it here:-
Japanese Data Show Vaccines Cause Autism - June 3, 2009
"Just months following the US Court of Federal Claims rejection of the claim that the MMR vaccine causes autism, here you will see data from formal peer refereed medical papers showing that vaccines caused autism in Japanese children and will be doing the same to children around the world. The number of Japanese children developing autism rose and fell in direct proportion to the number of children vaccinated each year [click image for larger graph in new window]:-
Read on ….
Japanese Data Show Vaccines Cause Autism - June 3, 2009
From: Clifford G. Miller,
Beckenham, Kent BR3 3LA, England
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Dumpster Diving: Free Agent Infielders
Most of the big-ticket free agent signings that make Ken Rosenthal all hot under the bowtie have already occurred. There's still time to get on the Prince Fielder Flyer, but Albert Pujols and C.J. Wilson are Angels, Jose Reyes is a Marlin and Yu Darvish will either be a Ranger or a Nippon Ham Fighter. Save for Fielder, none of the guys left on the market will elicit oohs and ahhs from fans.
There are still free agent values to be had as we enter January, however. Whether due to injury, a lousy walk year or a focus on what they player can't do instead of what he can, some guys with useful skill sets are still waiting to sign. Let's pick a Dumpster-Dive All-Star team, starting with infielders.
First Base: Carlos Pena
Why he's still available: Pena signed a one-year, $10 million deal with the Cubs last off-season and endured a miserable start to 2011, slugging just .175 in April. Always a high-strikeout hitter, he batted just .225 on the year (and that was a major improvement over 2010's .196 with the Rays). The lefty also continued to flail against same-handed pitching (.133/.260/.333 in 146 plate appearances vs. left-handers in 2011, .210/.309/.426 in over 1,400 PAs during his career).
Why he's valuable: Despite his low average and platoon issues, Pena isn't an all-or-nothing slugger. The 33-year-old remained a good source of walks (16.7% of his PA) and power, popping 28 home runs and posting a .237 Isolated Power. His 123 OPS+ placed ninth among first basemen who qualified for the batting title.
Pena struggles with breaking stuff, but he remains one of the deadliest fastball hitters in the game. His .574 slugging percentage against fastballs and sinkers ranked in the top 25 among hitters and blew past the .440 average for non-pitchers in 2011. As Pena's in-play slugging percentage against fastballs shows, he crushed pitches he connected with unless they were high and tight:
Where he'll sign: Cleveland makes all sorts of sense. The Tribe could contend in an American League Central division lacking a juggernaut club, and 27-year-old Matt LaPorta (career 93 OPS+) is now just a sour remnant of the CC Sabathia deal.Signing Pena would also allow Cleveland to keep Carlos Santana behind the plate more often, maximizing his value.
Depending on his asking price, Pena could also reunite with the Rays. Pena would be an upgrade over Adam LaRoche for the Nats if they don't sign Fielder, and he's likely better than Adam Lind in Toronto, too.
Second Base: Jeff Keppinger
Why he's still available: The former Met, Royal, Red, Astro and Giant missed nearly the first two months of the 2011 season following left foot surgery. Keppinger has never been known for his defense, and the bum wheel didn't help his substandard range (about -11 runs per 150 defensive game played last year at the keystone, and -3.5 during his career). Keppinger also hacked much more than usual, chasing 29% of pitches thrown out of the strike zone compared to about 20% in past seasons.
In particular, Kep became more hack-happy on high pitches and stuff thrown inside. Check out his swing rate by pitch location in 2011, compared to 2010:
Those extra outside swings led to a three percent walk rate (lowest of his career) and an 89 OPS+, his lowest tally since 2008. San Francisco non-tendered him rather than pay him somewhere in the range of $2.5-$3 million in arbitration.
Why he's valuable: While he lacks secondary skills even by the positional standards of second base, Keppinger just about never punches out (career 6.2 K%) and generally hits in the .280 range. With few walks or extra-base hits, his 95 OPS+ over the past three seasons is still right around average for second basemen.
Where he'll sign: Toronto could use a utility man with more offensive ability than Mike McCoy. Keppinger could compete with Jonathan Herrera, Eric Young Jr. and D.J. LeMahieu, among others, in Colorado.
Shortstop: Ronny Cedeno (slim pickings here; Ryan Theriot isn't someone you really want at shortstop)
Why he's still available: Cedeno's Triple-A mashing (a .937 OPS) has never come close to translating to the majors. He has a career 68 OPS+ in a little more than 2,300 big league PA, including a 76 OPS+ this past season with the Pirates. Since he debuted back in 2005, defensive dynamos Cesar Izturis and Adam Everett are the only shortstops with 2,000+ PA and a lower adjusted OPS.
Cedeno just can't help himself against inside stuff, trying to turn on pitches in on the hands:
He has swung at 48% of inside pitches thrown off the plate since 2008 (the first year for which we have Pitch F/X data), way above the 30% league average. Not coincidentally, he's rocking a career .286 on-base percentage.
Why he's valuable: He's not a defensive whiz, but Cedeno has a career -1 Ultimate Zone Rating/150 games at shortstop, including +6.8 this past season. Cedeno also has experience at second base and at 29, he's unlikely to lose his decent range in the near future. Being a defensively competent, semi-durable shortstop is enough to earn a 40-man roster spot and a major league paycheck.
Where he'll sign: San Francisco may be a fit. Brandon Crawford gets praise for his glovework, but his bat could be even more brutal than Cedeno's. Atlanta appears poised to turn shortstop over to prospect Tyler Pastornicky, though Cedeno could be a stopgap.
Third Base: Wilson Betemit
Why he's still available: Betemit is a switch-hitter in name only, with a career .246/.299/.385 triple-slash in 472 PA against left-handed pitching. Some might say he's only nominally a third baseman, too, as he has a career -14 UZR/150 at the hot corner. Betemit a utility player in the same sense as Ty Wigginton. Sure, he'll stand a reasonable distance away from a base and try to catch stuff that comes his way. That doesn't mean he'll be good at it, though.
Why he's valuable: Defensive foibles and platoon-worthy bat aside, Betemit hits righty pitching at a quality clip. The 30-year-old has a career .277/.348/.469 line in nearly 1,500 PA versus right-handers. He puts a hurt on righty pitches thrown upstairs or low-and-in:
No one should expect Betemit to retain the .391 batting average on balls in play that he sported in 2011, but he's a decent platoon bat who should be swapped for a defensive replacement in the later innings.
Where he'll sign: Betemit could be a cheap LaPorta upgrade for Cleveland, and he could compete with minor league masher Bryan LaHair in Chicago.
Check back later on as we continue to assemble our Dumpster-Dive All-Stars with outfielders, starting pitchers and bullpen arms.


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The Latest Entrant in the Tablet Wars: Cadillac
The new Cue control system mimics an iPad — but makes driving more complicated.
First there was the iPad. Then there was an onslaught of other tablet devices. Now, they're showing up in cars.
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Since the iPad debuted in 2010, technology forecasters have been predicting that tablet-style gizmos will become a ubiquitous hallmark of modern life, which finally seems to be happening as many top gadget makers roll out tablets in every price range. So it's no surprise that Cadillac has now introduced a tablet-style interface in most of its cars — called Cue — that relies on touch-screen controls and the casual flick and swipe commands that help give tablets their cool factor. Something similar will probably spread to other General Motors brands, if not all cars, eventually.
I spent a week testing out Cue in Cadillac's new XTS, a large sedan meant to compete with luxury makes like the BMW 5 series and the Mercedes-Benz E Class. The unstated premise behind a lot of modern technology is that it will make your life better, but first it will complicate things for a while. Cue lived up to that.
I declined a briefing on Cue when a Cadillac representative dropped off the car, figuring that I've been driving cars long enough to master whatever the automakers can throw at me. I should have accepted the briefing. Within my first 15 minutes on the highway, I was struggling like a novice driver trying to master a stick shift. I couldn't find the A/C button, so warm air was blasting out at me on a muggy, 80-degree day. Then my phone started to ring, but for some reason I hadn't set up the Bluetooth connection correctly, so I ended up rooting around for my phone in a bag.
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At that point, the seat cushion began pulsing my rear end, a feature I later learned was the "safety alert seat" warning me of potential danger. I was probably drifting out of my lane as I fiddled with the phone and climate settings, with the lane-departure warning system noticing the drift and letting me know by jolting my rump. But at the time, I felt vaguely assaulted and probably drove even more erratically. Once I found the right button, I turned off the vibrating seat.
It's facile to ding new technology for throwing you a curve the first time you try it, and Cue has earned some early dings. Several reviewers, for example, have faulted Cue's "haptic" controls, which sense the touch of your finger, for a brief delay that can lead you to push the button twice, then end up retracing your steps — while you're supposed to be watching the road, not the car's console.
But the real test of new technology is whether it becomes intuitive and pleasing once you get used to it. On that scale, I'd give the Cue a B- (although I might raise the grade if I actually owned a car with the system and had years to learn all the features and shortcuts). Like other multi-function systems on fancy cars, Cue is designed to provide loads of functionality without cluttering the dash with so many knobs and buttons that it begins to resemble the cockpit of a jet. It accomplishes that with a minimalist array of physical dashboard controls, including a "home" button for the Cue system, and a digital screen with app-style icons for audio, climate, phone and other functions.
You can customize how you configure the screen, just as you can on an iPad. An "app tray" on the screen keeps your most commonly used commands handy. Tapping an icon calls up a wide range of menu options — including a bunch you'll probably never need. Cue allows you to sync up to 10 different Bluetooth devices, for example, so you can alternate among all the smartphones and iPods in the family. There are 60 preset buttons for storing radio stations, phone numbers and frequent navigation destinations.
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Swiping the screen in various ways allows you to do things like call up your list of presets, or hide them, if they're not needed. You can pinch or spread your fingers to zoom the optional navigation map in and out. To change radio volume, you trace your finger along a metal bar beneath the digital screen, which mimics the digital volume control on an iPad. It's pretty cool, once you've practiced for a while.
Cue suffers, however, from the same system overload that dogs most other feature-packed automobiles. BMW and Mercedes encountered this problem a decade ago, with their iDrive and Comand systems that required paging through layers of digital menus to accomplish something that used to be as simple as pressing one button on the dashboard. Those systems are cleaner today, yet it still drives me mad trying to figure out how to mute the voice prompts on a Mercedes' navigation system.
Safety advocates have legitimate concerns about whether all the gizmology migrating into cars makes drivers more distracted, and driving more dangerous. Studies so far have been inconclusive, but drivers themselves have complained about too much complexity in cars. Consumer Reports, for instance, has panned Ford's MyTouch system, prompting Ford to promise to make it simpler.
Luxury makes tend to insist that their drivers are sophisticated enough to handle the complexity. Most BMW, Mercedes and Audi systems, for instance, require you to turn a knob to navigate around the screen, because they don't want you mussing their beautiful digital display with fingerprints. Lexus uses a mouse-like device that you press down, to "click," once you've highlighted the menu option you want to select. The Cue touch screen dispenses with that interface, since you can make selections by tapping right on the screen. Fingerprints didn't seem to bother Steve Jobs when he designed the iPad, but if the smudges on your Cue become unseemly, Cadillac provides a chamois cloth you can use to wipe them off.
There's also a Cue app for the iPad that includes a dozen tutorials — calibrated to "beginner," "advanced," and "expert" users — along with 16 how-to video clips. If you buy a Cadillac equipped with Cue, I recommended taking the tutorials. Oh, I almost forgot to mention: While operating Cue, you still have to drive the car.
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I am a big believer in employing all five senses whenever I travel. Lets be honest. If all we wanted to do was see a place and not experience it, then we wouldnt shell out a few hundred dollars for a plane ticket, another few hundred for accommodations, and a few hundred still for food and drinks while we are there.
I think anyone that does not experience their vacation destination but merely sees it, is robbing themselves blind. If all you wanted to do was see a place, Google street view is free, and visible from the comfort of your own home.
I love to travel, and if youre on Luxury Link Id wager you love to travel too. It is the one thing that brings us together, even though we might differ on everything else under the sun.
Ever since I could remember Ive loved to go places, but it was only recently that I learned to experience a place and not just see it.
My other passion in life is photography, and anyone who is an avid photographer knows its easy to live through the lens, and see your vacation in frames, rather than really experience the culture surrounding you.
It was only after several years of marriage and a dozen or so vacations that I realized I was missing out on some crucial ingredient of my travel. Yes, Id come home with stunning pictures of waterfalls, flora, fauna, landscapes, and portraits, but then someone who knew where Id been on vacation would ask, did you try feijoada or acaraje while you were in Brazil? and Id have to shake my head and say that I had not.
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The first thing I do is divide my time between seeing a vacation destination, and experiencing a destination. I still love photography and thats not going to change, so I take three days out of any trip and see it through the frame of my Nikon. The rest of the time however, I spend immersing myself in the culture, and truly experiencing the place, its traditions, and its people.
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Bill O'Brien remembers the moment clearly.
It was July 23, 2012 — five months after he was hired — and the 43-year-old O'Brien was sitting in his office watching the television. There on the screen was NCAA president Mark Emmert, somber and precise, reading off the laundry list of sanctions the organization was handing down on Penn State and the Nittany Lions football program.
O'Brien had a slight idea of what was coming, but he couldn't have imagined how severe the penalties would be — a four-year bowl ban, a $60 million fine and reductions of scholarships. And that doesn't include public relations hit the school's image already was taking after the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal.
Moments after the announcement, O'Brien knew he still had a job to do.
"After the initial frustration and anger, it was like 'Well, what are you going to do?' " O'Brien said during a break from the Nike Coach of the Year Clinic in Orlando on Saturday. "What are you going to do, cut and run? You're not going to do that. So, you are going to make sure that your players understand how you feel — that you're frustrated and angry too — but we have to move forward and here are the rules that we play under now.
"We don't have any choice."
They didn't and despite all the distractions surrounding the school and the program, O'Brien and his players did manage to move forward as the Nittany Lions put together an amazing 8-4 season, including a 6-2 record in the Big Ten.
For all of his troubles, O'Brien was awarded the Maxwell Club collegiate coach of the year award. He picked up his trophy Friday night before flying down to Central Florida for Saturday's clinic.
"It's a little bit overwhelming," O'Brien said. "It's a huge honor for me personally, but it's a program award. . . . It' a program award basically because so many people are involved in it."
Spend five minutes talking with O'Brien and you realize just how important those people around him are.
It was those people — from the players, to his coaching staff, the training and administrative staff on down to the video crew — who helped the program stay on course. However, it was a visit from a Rick Slater, a Navy SEAL and a former Penn State player, during training camp that helped give the team and its senior class its rallying cry for 2012-13. The team embraced the term "Charlie Mike," military slang for "Continue Mission."
"That was basically our phrase that we just adopted," O'Brien said. "Every time things got tough, the players used it a lot, even more than the coaches. We had it posted in our weight room."
There were the obvious tough times — the ones that were left behind in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky trial, the ones that cost legendary Penn State coach Joe Paterno his job, 111 wins and his place in the history books as perhaps one of the greatest coaches in college football.
Then there were those lesser ones on the gridiron.
Through it all, O'Brien would turn to those that meant the most during his professional life to ask their thoughts. There was his former boss, New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick, along with Alabama coach Nick Saban and his mentor, UCF coach George O'Leary.
"Every guy said that there's nothing you can do about it now, you just have to move forward," O'Brien added. "Make sure the kids understand what their roles are and coach the crap out of them and let the chips fall where they may."
Yet, through it all, O'Brien never wavered on his decision to come to Penn State.
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? Discussed and voted unanimously that all A/S National Championships and Category II USTA Tournaments will choose the number of seeds based on ITF regulations. Rationale: Several Category II tournaments are ITF sanctioned. Several are not. Those that are not are seeding according to USTA seeding regulations that are different than ITF's. The committee wants all A/S tournaments under the USTA umbrella to use the ITF regulations. A call item will be written.
? Moved and unanimously passed to create a Super Category II designation that would elevate the value of the tournaments that have many participants across the age groups and which attract the top ranked players.
? PPR: Motion and passed unanimously to change the multipliers for national ranking points: Local 1x, Sec. 2x, Cat. II 4x, Super Cat. II 5x and Cat. I 10x. Rationale: to make the PPR more accurate and to give more value to the stronger Cat. II tournaments. This change should improve accuracy and increase participation. A call item will be written.
? Motion and passed unanimously the retroactive approval for use of a 3rd set tiebreak for the consolations of the Men's 70-75 Indoor National Championship.
? Intersectionals: Moved and passed unanimously the addition of the women's 80s division starting in 2008.
? Moved and passed unanimously the request for the Husband/Wife Combined age of 140 to the Husband/Wife Combo 100 & 120 National Hard Court Championships as a gold ball event. This event is held at the Riviera Tennis Club in Pacific Palisades, CA.
? Nat'l Ranking: a minimum of 50 points shall be required. A call item will be written.
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? A request of a waiver from the ITF to use USTA Friend of Court regulations when replacing a seed once the draw has been made.
? Cat. II: Subcommittee to develop a standardized list for TD's of information needed for tournament home pages.
? Super Cat. II's: Cat. II subcommittee to establish the criteria, select tournaments and determine what changes would be necessary to make on the tournament application form. The subcommittee recommendations will be presented to the full committee for a vote before the Semi Annual Meeting. By e-mail blasts, articles in the NSWTA's newsletter, the Super Senior Men's newsletter and the Super Senior web site, and the USTA web site players will be educated on this change.
? Intersectionals: Open bid to host clay courts for 2009 Men's event with the intent to alter the surface each year.
? Familiarize TD's in entry of the RR results so that players' points are accurate.
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? The term "mixed", was added to the Call Item presented to the Executive Committee at the 2008 USTA Annual Meeting
? Unique player participation reported for 2004= 3,574, 2005= 4,293, 2006= 4,986, & 2007= 4,883.
? National Tournament Director Workshop is scheduled for Feb. 6-8 at DFW Airport.
? Ranking Certificates for '07 are waiting to be mailed one month ahead of schedule.
? USTA has received a waiver to give US officials more time to get White Badge training.
? Tournament Agreements for '09 sanctions are being reviewed in the USTA legal department and will require signatures and that the documents be returned to the USTA office.
? Pat Freebody discussed the Introduction of the Flex League Pilot: Consists mainly of NTRP events. This event does not reduce tournament play but rather provides a method for players to schedule their play. May be used as a marketing tool for A/S competition.
? Phillip Rowcliffe discussed "Active.com" /TennisLink explained fees and benefits.
? Player Survey: Summary. Items Recommended: Tournaments should be more weekend focused. Change event locations more frequently, leaving the event in the same place gets boring; lower entry fees; spread the tournaments throughout the US in a more even way, Tournaments should be guaranteeing more matches, and the seeding system should be more standardized. Results to be posted on the USTA Web site in May.
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The scientists have proposed an experiment that would send 10 varieties of the plant to the Red Planet as a Mars "Scout" mission. Scout missions are focused high-priority science experiments that can be achieved for less than $300 million apiece.
The plant experiment, which is funded by NASA's Human Exploration and Development in Space program, may be a first step toward making Mars habitable for humans, said Rob Ferl, assistant director of the Biotechnology Program at UF.
Christopher McKay, a planetary scientist at NASA Ames Research Center and a member of the NASA Astrobiology Institute, is the principle investigator for the Scout mission proposal. "I think this has a very good chance of working," says McKay, "and thereby addressing one of the key goals in the Astrobiology program: 'What is the potential for survival and biological evolution beyond the planet of origin?'" McKay is a strong advocate of sending biological experiments to Mars as an initial step toward eventual human exploration of the planet.
Ferl and a team of molecular biologists chose as their subject the Arabidopsis mustard plant. They picked it, Ferl said, because of three attributes that make it ideally suited for the Mars mission: Its maximum height is 8 inches, its life cycle is only one month and its entire genome has been mapped. (In December 2000 it became the first plant to have its genetic sequence completed.)
To create the glow, the team will insert "reporter genes" into varieties of the plant, which will express themselves by emitting a green glow under adverse conditions on Mars. Each reporter gene will react to an environmental stressor such as drought, disease or temperature. For example, one version will glow an incandescent green if it detects an excess of heavy metals in the Martian soil; another will turn blue in the presence of peroxides.
In fact, one of the reporter genes itself is somewhat otherworldly, having come from the depths of the ocean.
"What makes the plants glow blue is a protein derived from an incandescent jellyfish whose DNA is spliced into the mustard plant," Ferl says. "The implanted DNA then synthesizes the iridescent blue protein in the plant, which expresses itself under stress."
It wouldn't be possible, of course, to directly see the plants glow from Earth. The camera onboard the Mars lander would record the glow and then relay this signal back to Earth.
In 1999, Ferl sent 40 reporter-gene plants into orbit aboard the space shuttle. On that flight, the lack of gravity had an adverse effect on the plants' ability to utilize water, a condition called "space adaptation syndrome." The scientists are using that experience to engineer smarter plants.
"Just like humans, plants must learn how to adapt to a new environment," Ferl says. "We are using genetics to create plants that have the ability to give us data we can use to help them survive."
The mission would work like this: The seeds of the plant would make the trip aboard a small NASA spacecraft, which would land on the Martian surface. Upon arrival, the landing vehicle's robot would scoop up a portion of Martian soil, which the scientists would analyze using the robot and a specialized camera. After modifying the soil with fertilizers, buffers and nutrients, the scientists would germinate the seeds and grow the plants in a miniature greenhouse on the landing vehicle.
Despite working with alien soil they know little about, the biologists are optimistic about the experiment.
"I'm confident we can grow plants if we know the pH levels and the oxidizing agents in the Martian soil," Schuerger says. "We'll test the soil before planting, and then we can raise or lower pH, flush excess salts and add nutrients as needed."
As for long-term plans, Ferl and Schuerger have worked together on a concept called "terraforming" or "ecosynthesis," which would use plants to produce oxygen for life processes. Although the plants are genetically engineered to detect -- and then adapt to -- certain environmental stressors, terraforming presents additional obstacles.
Schuerger says that on Mars, daily temperatures range from a high of 7 degrees Celsius (45 degrees Fahrenheit) at noon to a low of minus 112 C (minu 170 F) at night. Also, the planet's moisture content is 0.3 percent, which is extremely low.
"In this project, the plant is growing under comfy, Earth-like conditions in terms of temperature and water activity," says McKay. "But this experiment is directly relevant to future greenhouses on Mars that would provide food and oxygen for human exploration. It's hard to imagine there will ever be greenhouses on Mars for life support if an experiment like this is not done first."
"I have no doubt that we can get plants to survive on Mars," Ferl says. "When we do, we will have shown that Earth-evolved life is capable of thriving in distant worlds, and we will have set the stage for human colonization."
A workshop being held this week at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory will review the dozens of proposed Scout missions. Six to ten will be funded for further study. The first Scout mission could fly as early as 2007.


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US-based automakers, Toyota report big sales gainsBy TOM KRISHER and DEE-ANN DURBIN | February 02,2013AP PHOTO
In this Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013 photo, Chevy trucks line the lot of a dealer in Murrysville, Pa. Ford, Chrysler and General Motors all reported double-digit gains for January as last yearís momentum in U.S. auto sales continued into 2013, according to reports Friday, Feb. 1, 2013.AP Auto Writers
DETROIT (AP) American consumers ignored tax increases and tromped through the winter chill to buy new cars and trucks at an unusually strong pace last month.
"(January) was like a sprinter out of the starting blocks," said Mike Jackson, CEO of AutoNation Inc., the country's largest auto dealership chain.
Analysts said it will likely be the best January in five years once all automakers report. Sales at Toyota rose 27 percent, and they were up 22 percent at Ford. GM and Chrysler each reported 16 percent gains compared with a year earlier.
The figures so far show that the auto industry remains a bright spot in a tepid U.S. economic recovery.
The results left the industry optimistic about the new year. Businesses bought more trucks. Consumers whose cars have reached a record average of 11.3 years old are ready to buy, and banks are making it easier with low interest rates and looser credit terms.
The stock market may also have inspired car buyers the Standard & Poor's 500 index had its strongest January since 1997. Also, employers have been hiring at a steady if not spectacular pace.
"We're in a fundamentally sound trajectory," said Mustafa Mohatarem, chief economist for GM. He said the recovery from the Great Recession in 2008 is still modest, but "those recoveries tend to be much more sustainable."
Whatever the incentive, people didn't let chilly weather, or the heavier hand of the U.S. Treasury, stop them from car shopping.
Chrysler estimated that total U.S. industry sales hit an annual rate of 15.5 million in January. If that holds for the rest of the year, automakers will sell 1 million more vehicles than in 2012, when sales rose 13 percent.
The strong January numbers came even though higher Social Security taxes cut take-home pay for most Americans. Taxes rose after a 2-percent cut in Social Security taxes, in place for two years, expired Jan. 1.
January sales might have been even higher without the tax increase, said Jesse Toprak, vice president of industry analysts at the car pricing site TrueCar.com. He said the increase is costing the average new car buyer those with a household income between $70,000 and $100,000 per year around $300 per month.
"That's almost a car payment," he said.
Analyst forecasts for 2013 are in the 15 million to 15.5 million range. Although still far from the recent peak of about 17 million in 2005, the industry could sell a whopping 5 million more cars and trucks than it did in 2009, the worst year in at least three decades.
At Ford, January's sales growth was led by the newly redesigned Fusion midsize car, which saw a 65 percent increase. Explorer SUV sales rose 46 percent. Sales of the F-Series pickup truck, the top-selling vehicle in the U.S., rose 22 percent.
GM's Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra each saw increases of over 30 percent while sales of the Ram pickup, Chrysler's top-selling vehicle, rose 14 percent from a year earlier. Those gains give a strong indication that businesses are replacing aging pickup trucks that they kept through the Great Recession.
Kurt McNeil, GM's vice president of sales operations, said the company noticed a 37 percent increase in sales to small businesses like building contractors, who normally buy pickup trucks.
Analysts say sales for the month should exceed 1 million vehicles and are likely to be 8 percent to 15 percent higher than a year earlier.
Jackson, whose chain reported record fourth-quarter earnings on Thursday, feared a hangover last month from the strong finish to 2012. But he said people who focused on paying down debt the past few years are now making big-ticket purchases at a robust pace.
Consumers are saying: "I'm moving ahead with my life. I'm getting a new vehicle," Jackson said.
Buyers crowded dealerships even though incentives weren't as good as last year. The auto industry spent 8 percent less on discounts last month than it did a year earlier, according to TrueCar.com. Of all major automakers, only Hyundai and Volkswagen raised incentives from what they spent in January of 2012, TrueCar said.
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Jeffrey Brewer President & CEO
After many years as an active JDRF volunteer, Jeffrey Brewer became JDRF's president and CEO in 2010. As a volunteer, he supported his local New York City Chapter as a member of its Board of Directors, and he completed two terms on the JDRF International Board of Directors, where he also served as a member of the Research Committee and was Chair of the volunteer oversight body for the Artificial Pancreas Project. Jeffrey's involvement with JDRF grows out of personal experience as the father of a son diagnosed with type 1 diabetes (T1D) at age seven. He is committed to doing all that he can to free his son—and the millions of people like him around the world—from the daily burden of T1D.
Jeffrey brings to JDRF a dynamic background as a successful internet entrepreneur and dedicated philanthropist. After graduating from Southern Methodist University, Jeffrey built two companies in the mid to late 1990s, CitySearch.com and Overture Services (formerly known as GoTo.com), from innovative start-ups into thriving publicly traded technology leaders. He then became Chairman of KickStart International, an award-winning nonprofit organization providing desperately poor but motivated entrepreneurs, primarily in East Africa, with the tools to design, market and implement simple, sustainable income-producing businesses.
As CEO, Jeffrey strongly believes that JDRF is in a unique position to leverage its tremendous scientific progress and increased understanding of T1D to achieve two core goals: 1) rapidly accelerate the research toward a cure, and 2) play a lynchpin role in the development and delivery of transformative therapies and treatments to improve the lives of people with T1D. Jeffrey's vision is that one day we will eliminate T1D entirely as a result of JDRF's leadership.
In the last three years, Jeffrey has increased JDRF's impact on T1D on a number of fronts, including growing its fundraising programs, accelerating and strengthening government advocacy to sustain federal funding for T1D research, breaking down regulatory barriers that hinder therapeutic innovation and funding, driving cutting-edge scientific research programs, and establishing meaningful partnerships that extend JDRF's influence on T1D research across both the academic and industry landscapes.
Under Jeffrey's leadership, JDRF has a plan to bring a continuous flow of life-changing therapies to patients with the goal of keeping people with T1D healthy and safe on the way to a cure and a future when T1D is spoken about in the past tense.
David E. Wheadon, M.D. Executive Vice President, Research and Advocacy
David E. Wheadon, M.D., is the executive vice president of research and advocacy, overseeing all aspects of JDRF's efforts to accelerate the discovery, development, and delivery of life-changing therapies for type 1 diabetes.
Prior to joining JDRF, Dr. Wheadon served as senior vice president of scientific and regulatory affairs at Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, providing strategic leadership in setting the scientific and regulatory advocacy agenda for the biopharmaceutical industry while also building and strengthening collaborative alliances.
Throughout his career, Dr. Wheadon has been a recognized leader in R&D, with excellent experience in drug development and translational research, regulatory and medical affairs, and patient advocacy. Working in leadership roles with major pharmaceutical companies, Dr. Wheadon was integral to the successful development and approval of several important drugs for central nervous system diseases, diabetes, gastrointestinal disorders, and diseases in other therapeutic areas. Dr. Wheadon began his career as a clinical research physician at Eli Lilly and Company and has served as vice president of global pharmaceutical regulatory and medical sciences at Abbott Laboratories and senior vice president of U.S. regulatory affairs at GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals. Through his various roles, Dr. Wheadon has worked with many government agencies around the globe and has worked extensively with the U.S. regulatory agencies. He also has represented pharmaceutical research companies in various public forums, including testifying before Congress.
Dr. Wheadon received his medical doctorate from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and completed his postgraduate training in psychiatry at Tufts-New England Medical Center.
Richard A. Insel, M.D. Chief Scientific Officer, Research
Richard A. Insel, M.D., is the chief scientific officer for JDRF, where he has responsibility for heading up the strategic direction and oversight of all JDRF research projects.
Dr. Insel has had a distinguished medical and research career in pediatric immunology. Prior to joining JDRF in 2003, he held various leadership positions at the University of Rochester Medical Center during a 26-year tenure there. Dr. Insel was the founding director of the Center for Human Genetics and Molecular Pediatric Disease and a member of the departments of pediatrics and microbiology & immunology. Among other responsibilities, Dr. Insel served as acting chair of pediatrics; professor of pediatrics, microbiology & immunology, and the Cancer Center; associate chair for pediatric research; director of the Strong Children's Research Center; and chief of the Division of Pediatric Immunology, Allergy and Rheumatology.
Dr. Insel was the scientific co-founder of Praxis Biologics, a biotechnology company established in 1983 and subsequently acquired by Wyeth, the global pharmaceutical and health care products company. Praxis Biologics was responsible for bringing a new vaccine to market that resulted in the virtual elimination of the most common form of childhood meningitis among American infants and children.
Dr. Insel has served on the National Advisory Allergy and Infectious Diseases Council of the National Institutes of Health. He has been a visiting associate professor of biochemistry and biophysics at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, a fellow in pediatrics (research) at Harvard Medical School, and a fellow in medicine (immunology) at Children's Hospital Medical Center in Boston. He also served in the Laboratory of Parasitic Immunochemistry at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.
Cynthia Rice Senior Vice President, Advocacy and Policy
Cynthia Rice is the senior vice president of advocacy and policy at JDRF, where she manages JDRF's legislative and grassroots programs as well as initiatives to accelerate access to new therapies.
Ms. Rice joined JDRF in September 2005 and was promoted to director of new technology access in January 2006. She has been a major catalyst for accelerating JDRF's Artificial Pancreas Project, leading a cross-departmental staff team in implementing the program's research, government relations, communications, and development goals.
Ms. Rice has extensive experience leading complicated advocacy projects in both the government and nonprofit sectors. In President Clinton's White House from 1997 to 2000, she served as a special assistant to the president for domestic policy, coordinating numerous high-profile policy initiatives involving experts from multiple agencies and employing various legislative, regulatory, and communications tactics.
In the mid 1990s, she served in the U.S. Senate as a legislative assistant to two senior members of the Finance Committee, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Senator John B. Breaux, helping to advance and amend a variety of budget, health, and domestic policy legislation.
From 2001 to 2005, Ms. Rice served as vice president for policy at the New Democrat Network, where she led efforts to promote the group's policy agenda to elected officials and the public.
Ms. Rice received an undergraduate degree from Harvard University and a master's in public policy from the University of California at Berkeley.
Sandra Hijikata Senior Vice President, U.S. Field Development
Sandra Hijikata is the senior vice president of U.S. field development at JDRF, where she is responsible for executing fundraising strategies, campaigns, and programs in the chapters and branches. She partners with senior leadership and the Core Operations team to ensure continuity between the fundraising strategies and regional objectives.
Sandra joins JDRF from the March of Dimes, where she was responsible for its revenue-generating programs. Her extensive experience working with chapters, regions, and field-based organizations—combined with her strong fundraising background—will help JDRF realize the revenue growth needed to achieve our vision.
Prior to the March of Dimes, Sandra spent 30 years at the American Heart Association, where she oversaw multiple regions, each with $20–$40 million in revenue and about 200 employees. Sandra began her career with the American Diabetes Association and is passionate about the mission of JDRF.
Julia L. Greenstein, Ph.D. Vice President, Cure Therapies
Julia Greenstein is currently the vice president of cure therapies. The Cure Therapies group at JDRF is responsible for the beta cell replacement and regeneration and imaging portfolio and the immune therapies portfolio at JDRF, the leading nonprofit nongovernmental funder of international research in type 1 diabetes.
She has more than 20 years of experience in the corporate biotechnology arena. She was the chief executive officer and president of Immerge BioTherapeutics, a Novartis Pharma/BioTransplant joint venture focused on the development of pig xenotransplantation for clinical practice. Prior to that, she held the roles chief scientific officer and senior vice president of research at BioTransplant Incorporated and vice president of discovery research at ImmuLogic Pharmaceutical Corp.
Dr. Greenstein serves on the Board of Directors of the MGH Institute of Health Professions and the Mass BioEd Foundation and was on the Board of the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council and the Massachusetts Society for Medical Research.
She received her Ph.D. in microbiology from the University of Rochester Medical School based on work in the laboratory of Philippa Marrack, Ph.D. She did postdoctoral training at the University of Rochester Medical School and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute of Harvard Medical School. Dr. Greenstein was an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
Aaron J. Kowalski, Ph.D. Vice President, Treatment Therapies
Dr. Kowalski oversees JDRF-funded research aimed at accelerating the delivery of therapies that will help keep people healthy while living with diabetes and minimize their risk for developing diabetes complications, as well as treatments that will help those who have developed diabetic complications. Dr. Kowalski is an internationally recognized expert in the area of diabetes technologies and has been a leader since its inception in 2005 of the JDRF Artificial Pancreas Project, a multimillion-dollar initiative aimed at accelerating progress towards a closed-loop automated insulin-delivery system and diabetes technologies that will improve blood sugar control in people with diabetes. He has published numerous articles in the field, including co-authoring the landmark New England Journal of Medicine publication demonstrating the effectiveness of continuous glucose monitors in type 1 diabetes. Dr. Kowalski has been an invited speaker at the ADA Annual Scientific Sessions, EASD, AACE, AADE and many other national and international conferences and was the keynote speaker at the 2008 Diabetes Technology Society Meeting.
Dr. Kowalski has traveled widely across North America and abroad describing diabetes research progress and is known for his ability to translate complicated science into easily understandable concepts. He has been a voice for diabetes research in the popular press, appearing on The Martha Stewart Show, dLife, Fox Business, NPR and many others and is often quoted in print media including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and People magazine.
Prior to joining JDRF he completed his Ph.D. in molecular genetics from Rutgers University and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.
In 1977, at the age of three, Dr. Kowalski's brother Stephen was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes and in 1984, at the age of thirteen, he, too, was diagnosed with type 1. It is their collective experiences over the past 30+ years that provide the daily motivation to fight for a cure.